Improvement in car-indicators



J. C. WINDBR. Gar-Indicator.

i No. 208,780. y Patented Oct. 8,1878.

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JOHN O. VINDER, OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLIXA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-INDICATORS.

Speeilieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,780, dated October S, HTS; application iled 7, 1ers.

.To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. XYINDER, of the city of Raleigh, in the county ot' lake and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful device for indicating the location or whereabouts of cars, by which the cars belonging to a road may be traced to its several connecting roads, and thus to be able to see at a glance how many cars are absent and to what road they should be charged, the method of keeping such record being fully set forth in the following specification.

The invention consists ot' a painted board ot suitable size, laid ott' in spaces to indicate the number ot connecting roads, and each space being of different color and marked with the initials or" the road it represents, and each space pierced with holes, in combination with sets ot pins, constructed as hereinafter described, to denote the peculiar kind ot' cars and their numbers. In the holes of the space representing the road keeping the record are inserted pins marked with the letter representing the kind of ear- B for box-cars, F for iiat cars, &c. For greater convenience, the box-cars are represented by ronnd-headed pins, and dat cars by square-headed pins. Each pin, is numbered to correspond to the number of each car, so that each car owned by the company is represented by a pin with corresponding number in the boa-rd.

Then a car leaves the road the pin corresponding to its number is taken out and inserted in a hole in the space allotted to the road to which the car has gone.; and this is done in all cases of departure. On the return the pin representing the car returned is extracted from the space in which it is found, and inserted in the space representing the home road.

The column containing the series or sets ot' pins represents the home road or station at which the recordis kept; the others, in which the pins are placed from time to time, connecting roads.

Figure l is a front View of my device, and Fig. 2 represents the pins employed to indicate the ditlerent kinds ot' cars and the numbers thereof.

By this record the oth'cer having in charge the movement of cars can see at a glance how many cars he has on his road, and how man v of his cars are absent, and where they are.

lVhat I claim is- The indicator hereinbefore described, consisting of a base divided into vertical columns, each ot' which is distinguished from the other by a contrastin facing, and provided with perforations and indicating-marks, and thc sets or series of indieatingpins, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JNO. (I. WIEDER. Witnesses:

J. B. MARTIN,

'2. l. ITARDTNG. 

